For whatever reason, many people in this city actually believe that marriage in today's society is sacred. They really do believe this. I just wonder what could make these people so hopelessly delusional as to believe such a thing. They use this "knowledge" to argue that homosexual men and women should not be able to legally marry each other.

Perhaps marriage was originally sacred, and possibly for some time thereafter, but today? Not with a divorce rate of roughly 50 percent.

"Till death do us part" is apparently an insignificant detail to some. Some couples could just decide the fate of their marriage by a coin toss. Is this sacred?

These homosexual men and women are not "ripping apart the moral fabric of our nation." After all, heterosexuals have already been there and done that. And just because a reverend writes a letter to this paper, claiming that homosexuality is wrong and marriage is under attack, that doesn't mean the words are taken verbatim from the mouth of God.

These men and women, these human beings, should be treated as such. That means they should be given the same benefits and rights that a straight couple is given.

It deeply troubles me, a young man of only 18, that the adults in my society are trying, and sometimes honestly believing, that what they fight for is for me, that they speak for my benefit and are holding my values.

I regret to inform them that they do not.